The Salsette Trombay Railway also known as the Central Salsette Tramway was a rail service that linked Andheri in the north with the village of Trombay

Trombay

Trombay is a northeastern suburb in Mumbai, India, with Mankhurd as the closest railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway.-History:...

 in the east, on the island of Salsette

Salsette Island

Salsette Island is an island in Maharashtra state on India's west coast. The metropolis of Mumbai and the city of Thane lie on this island, making it the 14th most populous island and the fourth most densely populated island in the world, after Migingo Island in Kenya, Ap Lei Chau in Hong Kong,...

 in the city of Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 (Bombay) in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The line was opened in 1928 by the Great Indian Peninsular Railway

Great Indian Peninsular Railway

The Great Indian Peninsula Railway was a predecessor of the Indian Central Railway, whose headquarters was at the Boree Bunder in Bombay . The Great Indian Peninsula Railway was incorporated on August 1, 1849 by an act of the British Parliament. It had a share capital of 50,000 pounds...

 under the Bombay Improvement Trust. The line was about 12 km long with a standard gauge

Standard gauge

The standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...

 heavy rail line. A couple of dozen standard gauge locos were used for these lines.

Stations on this route were: Wadavali, Mahul Road

Mahul Road

Mahul Road was a former station on the Salsette-Trombay Railway. It was dismantled after the rail line closed down in 1934. The area is in the Mahul region of Trombay in north-east Mumbai.-References:**, 25 Oct, 2005, Manoj R Nair...

, Kurla

Kurla

Kurla is a suburb of Mumbai. It is also the name of one the busiest railway stations on the Mumbai suburban railway on the central and harbour railway lines of Mumbai...

 Jn., Agra Road

Agra Road

Agra Road was a former station on the Salsette-Trombay Railway. It was dismantled after the rail line closed down in 1934.The station lay in the Kurla region of Mumbai, located close to where the Tramway route intersected the Old Agra Road , close to the Kurla BEST Bus Depot.-References:**, 25...

, Kolovery

Kolovery

Kolovery was a former station on the Salsette-Trombay Railway. It was dismantled after the rail line closed down in 1934.Kolovery Village lies in the Kalina area of Santacruz .-References:**, 25 Oct, 2005, Manoj R Nair...

, Kole-Kalyan, Sahar

Sahar, Maharashtra

Sahar is an area in the Andheri suburb of North Mumbai which is the site of the Sahar International Airport which opened here in 1981, which lead to subsequent development in the area. including the opening of the first hotel of The Leela Group in 1988...

, Chakala

Chakala

Chakala ) is a neighbourhood of Mumbai. It was a former station on the Salsette-Trombay Railway. It was dismantled after the rail line closed down in 1934. It is in the Andheri region of Mumbai....

 and Andheri.

During weekends, the line was frequented by picknickers who used to travel to Trombay to buy toddy

Palm wine

Palm wine also called Palm Toddy also called "Kallu" written in Malayalam and கள்ளு in Tamil or simply Toddy is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm tree such as the palmyra, and coconut palms...

 or palm liquor. In 1934 the line was shut to make way for the Santacruz Airport. Most of the locomotives used were returned to England

England

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